National Monuments 5283 Count not the cost of honor to the dead! The tribute that a mighty nation paya To those who loved her well in former daya Means more than gratitude for glories fied: For overy noble man that she hath bred, Immortalized by art’s immortal praise, Lives in the bronze and marble that […]
Where the Cotton Blossom Grew 3591 Picture tonight & field of snowy White Hear the darkies singing soft and low, I long there to be For some one waits for me Down where the cotton blossoms grow As I reached that dear old place Every old familiar Brought into my heart a throb of untold […]
Our Father’s at the Helm 1795 Our Father’s Teren the howling winds may blow, And besventur vesas to a for Our Father’s at the helm Though Irine to with close reefed natis, While beate the farious pale, Our chudike fatth will never fail Our Father at the heim Vatinera at the Father’s at the helm […]
BLUFFING 3786 If mebbe in yer system there’s a little sportin’ streak You’ll understand the joy of which I’m tryin’ fur to spenk: When your kind of losing courage an’ yer luck is runnin’ hard, An’ ye hold a bob-tail flush an’ raise and draw a single card, An’ it aint the card ye wa […]
Ht Dish 5542 Hit am de lublies’ dish de Lawddone made, De sweets’ dinnah dat Ah ebbahhad- Ter cotch there chick’n sleepin’ on the rose And gib that pullet jes’ one gentle angry’, Clap tight the shoe-lace round’ it be sock-mouf; Then fry that chicken like they do down Souf Oh, Lawdy! Ah’s jes’ dyin’ […]
PERSIAN PROVERB 3073 As trees of sandalwood make sweet The axe that lays them low, Let love enable thee to greet With friendliness thy foe; And though he smite thee, still to meet With blessing every blow -Rose Mills Powers
Cover Them Over 1211 Cover them over with beautiful flowers; Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours; Lying so silent, by night and by day, Sleeping the years of their manhood away; Years they had marked for the joys of the brave; Years they must waste in the sloth of the grave All the […]
Mate 573 There is a wistul Prayer That often comes to me And lays its face against my face In utter ecstasy- That all the lovers in the world Might be as near as we!
The Free 1484 The carrion vultures of the town, Who plunder a stricken foe, But eagles eagles they who strike their Alive, nor fear a blow prey Bold hearts they be, and large and free Is life as they bravely make it; And thus they speak of the prize they seek, “Behold; let the best […]
After the Years 4102 When you went back to the old home place had the mountain become a hill? Had the raging river your boyhood knew shrunk down to a peaceful rill? Were the monster trees in the old front yard but half of their former size? Was something gone and you don’t know what […]
Under the Anheuser Busch 2023 Talk about the shade of the sheltering palms; Praise the bamboo charms, tree and its wide spreading There’s a little bush that grows right here in this town You know Its name for it has won such renown, Often with my sweetheart just after the piny To this little pince […]
EARTH-BOUND Georgia Wood Pangborn 2624 You mourn that I live but in yesterday, Gone from the world by a hidden way; But the hand of the wind in your hair is mine, I am the bubble within your wine All night with the moths I have played and sped, With their long, curled tongues from […]
The Refugee 631 -They call the fund “revolving,” In their little pleasant way; We call the fund dissolving, As we watch it every day Revolving or dissolving, Or whatever is its name, Relief as it’s administered ‘S a very pretty game For, first you get the money, And you put it in a sack, And […]
Where He Leads Me I Will Follow 2027 I can hear the Bavlor calling, In the tenderest accents calling: On my our there words are “Take thy crows, and dally follow nie” falling! Chorus- I will take yiy crows and follow My dear Havlor I will follow Where he leads me I will follow I […]
High LIfe at Christmas 2552 When the turkey’s on the table, And the mince ple’s on the way, An’ my plate is filled with ilxens Thet belong to Christmas day, I fergit I’m I’m over eighty, An’ about my rheumatiz, An’ it seems to me that livin’ Is the best thing that they is Every […]
The Song for the Fellow to Sing Wallace Irwrn 691 I give herewith carefully-selected stan- zas from “the song for the fellows to sing,” not because I indorse its sentiments, but because I wish to submit to my readers positive proof of the degeneration in Alger- non’s English style under the Government Ownership system Good-by, […]
The Open Door 3435 Young Mother Hubbard, two years wed, Left one day all alone In Husband’s mother’s house, observed Poor Fido beg a bone So to a cupboard straight she hied And, flinging back the deal door wide, Let loose not one bone, but a score: The Family Skeleton! (Young wives strange doors should […]
The Widow Malone By Charles Lever 641 Did ye hear of the Widow Mulone, Who lived in the town of Athlone Ochone! Alone? Oh! she meited the hearts Of the swaing in them parts So lovely the Widow Malone Ochone! So lovely the Widow Malone Or more Of lovers she had a full score And […]
Put My Little SHoes Away 6004 Mother, dear, come bathe my forehead, For I’m growing very weak; Only let one drop of water Fall upon my burning check Chorus- Oh, I’m going away to leave you, mother, Oh, remember what I say; Do it, won’t you, please, dear mother, Put my little le shoes away […]
When the Harvest Days Are Done 2174 Near the fireside so cheerful He la dreaming of the days of long ago, And in fancy he is roaming With his sweetheart in the glouming Near the fireside so cheerful Sits and old man sad and tearful; He is dreaming of the days of long ago, And […]